Re: [orca-list] Different Voices

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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My situation exactly.  I noticed this situation when I would navigate
around inside a table which involves using the shift-alt arrow key
combinations; In those particular cases, it seemed that espeak would
speak with a slightly different accent.  I can't recall any place
where I have gnome-speech configured to use a different voice.  I do
ask capital letters to be spoken at a slightly higher pitch.  When I
hear the "different "voice" while switching tasks, I think holding the
alt key to do the alt-tab thing might be a contributer and again, I
only notice this when Firefox is in the loop.  Also, I think this only
happens when I switch tasks *FROM* firefox to something else.
Everywhere else, the voice is consistent and stable.

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 05:17:47PM -0300, jose vilmar estacio de souza wrote:
> Hi Will,
> I am not sure if my problem is exactly the same reported by Steve,
> but I've observed that some times orca starts to read using another
> pitch. It happens when I am navigating with firefox or when I press
> some combination keys like ctrl+shift+s or ctrl+w. I've orca
> configured to announce capital text in a different pitch
> As I said I am not sure if is the same problem. Perhaps I may report
> in another thread.
> Thanks.
>
> Steve:
>
> On 10/05/2009 05:03 PM, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hi Steve:
> >
> > Something sounds very strange here.  If you opened the preferences
> > dialog the normal way (i.e., pressing the "Preferences Button" or
> > pressing Orca+Space), you should be making global changes for speech
> > selection.
> >
> > > From what it sounds like, Orca (or speech dispatcher) might be hanging
> > on to an old voice selection somehow.  If you restart Orca or
> > SpeechDispatcher, do you end up getting the voices you selected?
> >
> > Will
> >
> > On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 10:46 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > > I have a question about voice parameters.  I've been noticing lately
> > > that Orca can some times use different voice settings depending on
> > > what application is running.  In my case, I changed from Cepstral
> > > Callie back to espeak and then needed to speed up the speech rate for
> > > example.  I did that fine through the main Orca preferences.  But then
> > > when I changed over to Firefox for example, I noticed that I had the
> > > slow rates I formerly used with Callie.  I then had to set those
> > > backup and I did so with the Firefox specific preferences.  Are voice
> > > parameters stored with each application separately?  I thought that
> > > was standard across the board and should only be done at the global
> > > level.
> > >
> > > With all this in background, I'm now noticing a funny espeak voice
> > > being used when I either navigate tables in firefox and when I alt-tab
> > > from Firefox to any other application that is currently running.
> > > Anyone know what might be causing this? I would just soon get it all
> > > to using the same speech parameters everywhere if possible.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help.
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